Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2022 15 Stunning Shortlisted Images
Now in its 58th year, the world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has released a preview of highly-commended images that have made it into the final stretch of the London Natural History Museum’s showcase for the world's 100 best nature photos. An underwater wonderland, a disappearing giraffe, a curious polar bear looking out the window and a tree-frog pool party are a few of the captivating entries included in this first cut that showcases wildlife photography and photojournalism as an art form and challenges us to consider both our place in the natural world and our responsibility to protect it. This year, the Natural History Museum in London will unveil a new, redesigned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition on October 14 featuring those 100 most remarkable photographs illustrating the precious beauty of our planet. The 2022 competition attracted entries from photographers of all ages and experience from 93 countries. Each entry was judged anonymously based on its creativity, originality, and technical excellence by an international panel of industry experts. Among the newly-released Highly Commended images, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year organizers spotlight “Tiina Törmänen’s otherworldly encounter with fish ‘flying’ through cloud-like algae, seven-year-old Joshua Cox’s portrait of a stag in Richmond Park, U. K., the contrast between the natural world and human infrastructure artfully captured by Jose Fragozo in Nairobi, and Srikanth Mannepuri’s sobering look at the scale of unsustainable fishing.”“Captured by some of the best photography talent from around the world, the 100 photographs encourage curiosity, connection and wonder,” Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum notes. “These inspiring images convey human impact on the natural world in a way that words cannot – from the urgency of declining biodiversity to the inspiring bounce back of a protected species.”The winning images, including the prestigious Grand Title Award and Young Grand Title Award, will be announced on October 11, 2022. The exhibition at Natural History Museum opens on October 14 and runs until July 2, 2023. The opening for entries to the 59th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition begins on October 17, 2022, and closes on December 8. The sight of a young male bonobo gently holding a mongoose pup deep in the rainforest was highly unusual. The photographer was tracking a group of these endangered great apes that are being studied by Barbara Fruth of the Max-Planck Society. He recalls setting out “before light,” wading “chest-deep through flooded forest,” and frequently walking 20 kilometers a day. ‘The bonobo held and stroked the little mongoose for more than an hour,” Ziegler said. The situation probably had a darker beginning. Bonobos are omnivores and eat mainly fruit but occasionally they hunt. The mongoose pup – eventually released unharmed – may have been taken when its mother was killed.
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